Comment on Statement from Colm Keaveney by WorldbyStorm
“But that tradition is now unrepresented. ” +1
View ArticleComment on Statement from Colm Keaveney by gabbagabbahey
I’d be in the same boat as paul. I felt uneasy at a lot of the criticism of Labour around the Clare Daly bill and even some of the budget, because what can they do when FG are so large (and in the...
View ArticleComment on Statement from Colm Keaveney by greengoddess2
We need proper ideologies here. Alliance of left etc.
View ArticleComment on Statement from Colm Keaveney by WorldbyStorm
That point you make about a ‘permanent opposition’ really resonates with me and I’d have much the same criticism of the idea, because that seems to me to be the most probable fate of much of the left...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 12th December, 2012 by Michael...
For them as follows Italian political life, it looks as if Il Manifesto is on the way out: the last of the founders, Valentino Parlato, has left, not too long after Rossana Rossanda.
View ArticleComment on Statement from Colm Keaveney by CL
HSBC has been fined $2bn (€1.5bn) for many money laundering offences committed while two of the most senior figures now tasked with cleaning up the Irish financial system were top executives at...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Budget Day Open Thread, 5th December, 2012...
Good round-up, if optimistic http://thequietus.com/articles/10958-2012-in-review-oh-shit
View ArticleComment on Statement from Colm Keaveney by RosencrantzisDead
Also, a certain poster is rather conspicuous in their consistent lack of condemnation for Fine Gael. This is rather striking since Fine Gael are claiming the budget is fair and represents a series of...
View ArticleComment on Important Article from the KKE on the Situation in Greece by Amie
I’d like to find out more? I’d love to find out some additional information.
View ArticleComment on Happy Christmas, the ULA, and Merry diminishing participation! by...
http://revolutionaryprogramme.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/sp-announces-death-of-the-ula/ “Amazing article really – it was the fault of everybody else – we did nothing wrong! “But it does capture a lot of...
View ArticleComment on Happy Christmas, the ULA, and Merry diminishing participation! by...
It is hard to not think that the reason the ULA didn’t have a position on abortion rights was because the component organisations all considered it too dangerous electorally. The SP and SWP are now...
View ArticleComment on Happy Christmas, the ULA, and Merry diminishing participation! by...
For any that are interested a thread on Politicalworld here on the topic http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=13390
View ArticleComment on Happy Christmas, the ULA, and Merry diminishing participation! by...
Well, in the words of Ronald Reagan, there you go again http://upstart.ie/blog/?p=801
View ArticleComment on That Keaveney vote. Interesting. Who next? by sonofstan
There has to be a tipping point though: the leadership can’t survive constant attrition. 10? 15? more than half?
View ArticleComment on That Keaveney vote. Interesting. Who next? by Tomboktu
And I think some of them were just so plain excited to be a TD that they did not think through what the possibilities of voting to go into coalition with Fine Gael would be. And thinking clearly about...
View ArticleComment on That Keaveney vote. Interesting. Who next? by doctorfive
‘Look, I didn’t think the economy was in such a state or we had so many difficult decisions until I was in the middle of it to be honest.’ – Willie Penrose on resignation last year...
View ArticleComment on Bits and pieces: Culture (including the true meaning of Science...
[...] already referenced the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ here, and I’m not sure whether I’m pleased or appalled that there’s something of a [...]
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